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PAPER FILE.

To ALL WHoM rIT MAY CONcEnN:

Be it known that I, GRMOND CRANDELL, of Washington, in the county of Washington, and District of Columbia, have invented a. new en'd improved Bill File; and I dolhereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, .and to the letters of 'reference :marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in so constructing a file for bills and papers that nearly the entire Voirc'ulnfercnce may be used 'or occupied by the yapers filed, and be operated by means of aspring, spiral or otherwise, with levers attached, opposite to the-point where the file opens to receive the papers to beled.

To enable'others skilled inthe art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation.

' I take a piece o wire 'ot' the proper length and thickness for a lel At, or nearfthe middle, I lnake a coil in the wire, of the Vproper .size to form a suitable spring. `Having done this, I bend the Wire again, so as to forni-two projections or thumb-pieces, one on each side ofthe coil, by means of which the spring maybe operated. In one of these projections there muy be an extra bend, forming` a loop or eye, for lhanging up the le. From these points I bend the wil-e in a circular shape to form the body of thedfile, until the two ends meet. I make one end sharp to pierce the paper, and the other hollow, so that the pointed end will tit into it,

the spring keeping themtogether thus forming an unbroken line-from one side of the coil to the other, upon which the papers maybe moved without dropping.

' Figure 1 represents theple open. a a are the two ends, one pointed and the other hollow.- b b are the two sections of the body of the file, extending into the coil or spring D, by means of which the two ends a a' are held together. c c age two projections or levers, by pressing which the ends a a are made to open to receivetheipapers to be filed. e is a loop or eye for hanging-up the file.

Figure 2 represents the file closed, where the pointed end-a is entirely concealed by the hollow end a.

I do not, however, confine myself to the precise form and arrangement shown and described, s it is obvious that variousvmodications thereof may be ma'de without materially departing from the essence of my invention. i v

4What I claim as my invention, and desire. to secure by Letters Patent, is A bill and paper file, made as herein described, or its substantial ecuivalent.4

GERMOND CRANDELL.

Witnesses:

W. TnomrsoN, WM. MILLS.- 

